Sat Vocab

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auspicious

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promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable

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querulous

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characterized by or uttered in complaint; peevish

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paucity

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smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness

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pliant

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bending readily; flexible; supple; adaptable
easily influenced; yielding to others

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emulate

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to try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass

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expurgate

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to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable

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trepidation

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tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation

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verbose

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characterized by the use of many or too many words; wordy

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vicarious

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taking the place of another person or thing; acting or serving as a substitute
felt or enjoyed through imagined participation in the experience of others

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quixotic

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extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical, or impracticable

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trenchant

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incisive or keen, as language or a person; caustic

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impede

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to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.

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forbear

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to refrain or abstain from; desist from.

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migratory

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pertaining to a migration

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evade

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to escape from by trickery or cleverness

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efface

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to wipe out; do away with; expunge

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asunder

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into separate parts; in or into pieces

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incite

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to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action

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beleaguer

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to surround or beset, as with troubles.
to surround with military forces.

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milieu

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surroundings, esp. of a social or cultural nature

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myriad

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a very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things

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accolade

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any award, honor, or laudatory notice

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grandiloquent

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speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.

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histrionic

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deliberately affected or self-consciously emotional; overly dramatic, in behavior or speech.

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arduous

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requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult

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dulcet

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pleasant to the ear; melodious.
pleasant or agreeable to the eye or the feelings; soothing.

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porcine

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resembling swine; hoggish; piggish.

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caucus

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any group or meeting organized to further a special interest or cause.

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demonic

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inspired as if by a demon, indwelling spirit, or genius

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harangue

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a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.

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atrophy

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degeneration, decline, or decrease, as from disuse

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muster

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to gather, summon, rouse

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curtail

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to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.

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facilitate

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to make easier or less difficult; help forward

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coterie

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a group of people who associate closely

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ballistic

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having its motion determined or describable by the laws of exterior ballistics.
to become overwrought or irrational

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ambience

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the mood, character, quality, tone, atmosphere, etc., particularly of an environment or milieu

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girth

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the measure around anything; circumference.
something that encircles; a band or girdle.

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cranny

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a small, narrow opening in a wall, rock, etc.; chink; crevice; fissure

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irascible

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easily provoked to anger; very irritable